“Social justice, when it comes, will not proceed from legislative enactments aimed at the perimeter of society,” he said in a 1951 speech at Cornell University, “it will rather be diffused through the community as a healthy contagion radiated from the contrite hearts of individual men.” The message found so wide an audience that Manion tendered his resignation from Notre Dame in early 1952 and began to keep a full-time speaking schedule.46
